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I dont "need" to, I just thought it might be nice if the bar still looked like it had a full path in it, but when you click on it it turns out to be breadcrumbs.

btw. I have done some reasearch on this, because I suspected that it is possible: I found at least one windows 7 custom theme on deviantart that has modified images in place of the >'s. Now its just a matter of figuring out where and how these are stored, and then modifying my existing theme

(That was the path in my case anyway.. it may be a different path for other themes, Im not sure.)
Also note that this only changes the image of the "active" crumbs - theres an "inactive" entry as well.. and also note that it may well be the one in "aero" or "max" or whatever else there is .. I really have no idea how exactly these things are structured, all I know is, in order to change the inactive one I had to go to a whole different path, I think it was:

Luckily, stylebuilder lets you experiment and "test" as much as you want.

Ah one last thing: Be sure to use a proper graphics editing tool.. I was using an older version of Paint Shop Pro (old habits..), and it seems it cant handle the image format properly.
I ended up having to do the editing with GIMP, which worked nicely.

Classic Shell has saved my computers life, and my own. My god, it feels so good to be free once again. What is wrong with Microsoft persisting to change things that do not need changing, and making things easier when they don't need to be?! I wish I could have the Windows 7 power on an XP install.

explorer: breadcrumbs bar: how to change > into \ ?

Stop breadcrumbs in SaveAs dialogHow can I stop "breadcrumbs" in Address bar of SaveAs dialog. ?
(I have disabled breadcrumbs in Explorer window using Registry tweaks)
I find bread crumbs difficult to read until I click in the address bar
... all that does is add extra clicks to a simple save file process
Is there a...

Missing breadcrumbs am I rightWhen I click on the address bar at the top of Windows Explorer I get a blank dropdown menu. I'm wondering if this is correct. In XP the dropdown would enable me to go back.I think I attached a screen shot of what I'm talking about.

Explorer.exe changeHello, i need a little help. I download Snow Leopard for Windows 7 by ~sagorpirbd on deviantART mac os theme.
First i patched windows 7 themes, second upload themes to themes folder, and finaly i cant overtwrite original explorer.exe in windows folder. Can someone help me? :) How to change...

Customization

change icon in explorerI installed notepad++ and wish to change the icon since it has an ugly, 1995 icon to it for some reason. It looks ugly in explorer when viewing a list of registered file type extensions to notepad such as txt.
How can I do this?